In recent years, young college English teachers’ professional development has become a core issue. The traditional training of young teachers ignored the empirical, experiencing and diversifying nature of language teachers’ professional development. From the perspective of constructivism, this paper elaborates the impacts of teaching reflection on young college English teachers and highlights f...

Teacher professional development, as a burgeoning term, has attracted a surge of interest in English language teaching. In second language (L2) professional development, the common orthodoxy has been one which considers teachers as that of knowledge consumers. It is commonly argued that top-down approaches to teachers’ professional development has done little to maximize teachers’ professionali...

The major purpose of this study was to develop a survey to measure elementary school teachers' self-efficacy for web-based professional development. Based on interviews with eight elementary school teachers, three scales of web-based professional development self-efficacy (WPDSE) were formed, namely, general self-efficacy (measuring teachers’ general capabilities of using Internet tools or comp...

The primary foundation of teacher evaluation is establishing standards for assessing the optimal characteristics of qualified teachers.  The present study aimed at exploring standards of professional competence of adult-level Iranian EFL teachers in the private sector and developing a questionnaire to assess their professional competence.  To this end, initially, the members of the professional...

Teacher professional identity is widely acknowledged as a multi-dimensional dynamic evolving concept contributing to teachers’ self-perception about their professional roles. This qualitative study aimed to explore how different instructional settings of teaching English as a foreign language in Iran impacted on teachers’ professional identities in a comparative way. To this end, 25 English tea...

Teachers Participating in Professional Learning Activities: The Role of Personal, Organizational, and Administrative Factors   M. AhmadYoosofi* H. Motaharinejaad, Ph.D. ** H. Aazari, Ph.D. ***   To help with the improvement in professional learning of teachers the opinions of 190 elementary school teachers on developmental leadership, cooperation among teachers, internalization ...

EFL teachers’ professional identity is a multi-dimensional and complicated concept. It is influenced by many other issues in the educational context such as reflective practice. This study intended to explore the relationship between professional identity and reflectivity of Iranian EFL teachers. It also aimed to examine how high and low reflective teachers perceive the professional identity co...

English for Specific Purposes, so far, is probing its way in our Sudanese universities. It is taught as a university requirement. Unfortunately, our students are disappointed when they graduate confronting the real situation in the workplace to use their ESP background. Most of the students feel they discontent with the syllabus which had been taught, because it doesn’t meet their needs. Furthe...